Anyone using Social media to get traffic soon discovers they’ve been sucked into the black hole of time management.
Even if you hire 2-3 outsourcers from the sub-continent of India and work 24 hours a day yourself – you can’t possibly keep up with all the emerging web 2.0 properties and follow your metastasizing universe of new friends.
There is a simple and profitable solution to this overload or as I call it Social Media Productivity.
The next time you are doing ANYTHING on Twitter, Facebook, blogging etc. just ask yourself this one question:
“How Do I Get Paid?”
The moment you ask your activity to pass through this simple filter – you’ll gain instant clarity, your stress level will go down while your profits go up.
First you’ll need to answer this question in general – how DO you get paid? How do you monetize your business? “Getting traffic to my site” is not sufficient. What kind of traffic do you want? How are you positioning your traffic so that when they arrive they’ll take a profitable action?
Before Facebook or Twitter, Jack Humphrey built his business model on the concepts inside his first book “Power Linking” in which he made the case for linking your web property for profitable traffic you could sustain even if the search engines dropped you completely.
Social media gives us an even better platform for achieving this model – but, if you spend all your time following the herd instead of intelligently and intentionally using your time – you will end up exhausted and broke.
Mistress Mia.com is an authority on Social Media Productivity and helps online entrepreneurs get “unstuck” with innovative ideas and fun.
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